Notes to standalone financial St_Note_45

45  Miscellaneous

a.

There have been no events after the reporting date that require disclosure in these financial statements.

b.

Amounts less than 50,000 have been shown at actual against respective line items statutorily required to be disclosed.

c.

The Company does not have any Benami property, where any proceeding has been initiated or pending against the Company for holding any Benami property.

d.

The Company has performed the assessment to identify transactions with struck-off companies as at 31 March 2024 and identified no company with any transactions.

e.

The Company has not traded or invested in crypto-currency or virtual currency during the financial year.

f.

The Company has not granted any loans or advances in the nature of loans to promoters, directors, KMPs and the related parties (as defined under the Companies Act, 2013), either severally or jointly with any other person.

g.

No funds have been advanced or loaned or invested either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds by the Company to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entities (‘Intermediaries’), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the company (‘Ultimate Beneficiaries’) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.

h.

No funds have been received by the Company from any person or entity, including foreign entities (‘Funding Parties’), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party (‘Ultimate Beneficiaries’) or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.

i.

The Company has not been declared wilful defaulter by any bank or financial institution or Government or any Government authority.

j.

The Company has not been sanctioned working capital limits from banks or financial institutions during any point of time of the year on the basis of security of current assets.

k.

The Company does not have any transaction which is not recorded in the books of accounts that has been surrendered or disclosed as income during the year in the tax assessments under the Income Tax Act, 1961 (such as, search or survey or any other relevant provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961).

l.

Bajaj Auto (BAL) uses SAP-S4 HANA as the accounting software. SAP ensures an audit trail, providing standard functionality and logging in all changed data in the system. This functionality and audit trail feature in SAP has been operational throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded through the application at BAL.

At BAL, accounting documents are used to record all business transactions – posted documents are stored in SAP for every transaction and a financial document once posted cannot be deleted or changed for data points impacting financials. The SAP environment at BAL is appropriately governed and only authorised users can make postings in SAP, while interacting with the system through the application layer. Normal/regular users are not granted nor have direct SAP-DB (database) or super user level access which would allow them to make any changes to financial documents directly which have already been posted through the application.

To operate the SAP-application and the SAP-DB, the system necessarily requires a set of super-users to have DB-level accesses. These super-users are obligated to perform system related tasks. They are not allowed to carry out any direct changes/edits to financial transactions in the SAP-DB, which if carried out is ill-legal. In the event of an unauthorised change by a super user specifically, these can be detected through an investigative approach and/or using services provided by SAP as part of their financial data quality check service, which validates the consistency of financials based on the request of the client. Therefore, while the SAP-DB at the moment does not have the concurrent real time audit trail feature in view of its infeasibility, the tracking of changes can be done through a focused enquiry process.

m.

The Company does not have any charges or satisfaction which is yet to be registered with ROC beyond the statutory period.

n.

Figures for previous year/period have been regrouped wherever necessary.

As per our report of even date

On behalf of the Board of Directors

For S R B C & CO LLP

Chartered Accountants

ICAI Firm Registration Number: 324982E/E300003

Niraj Bajaj

Chairman (DIN: 00028261)

Dinesh Thapar

Chief Financial Officer

Rajiv Bajaj

Managing Director (DIN: 00018262)

per Arvind Sethi

Partner

Membership Number: 089802

Pune: 18 April 2024

Rajiv Gandhi

Company Secretary

Anami N. Roy

Chairman – Audit Committee

(DIN: 01361110)